States pursue conflicting policies by ignoring cross-policy implications

Evidence

To say that the right hand does not know what the left hand is doing is not quite accurate: rather the right hand does not pay any attention to the implications of the left hand’s activities. Thus, in the interwar period Japan acted as though its policies toward China would not influence the prospects for relations with the West (Iriye, 1969). — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 2589

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: State control confers unmatched coercive and informational advantages worth contention over — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 73; State policy design, not culture, suppresses Japan’s litigation rate — G. Alan Tarr, Judicial Process and Judicial…, 1147